In 1922 the NAACP called on all its resources to have the Dyer Anti-Lynching Bill passed through Congress. The House had passed the Bill in the early months of1922, but the Senate was delaying voting on the bill.

James Weldon Johnson called on Negro women, including his wife, to raise one million dollars and to find one million new members to support the effort. The campaign was only planned to last from October of 1922 until January of 1923.

The primary objective of the campaign was to keep the focus on having the U. S. Senate pass the Dyer Bill which made lynchings a Federal crime. The Senate, however, had different ideas and based on the Democratic Senators filibustering the Dyer Bill, the Republicans withdrew the bill in December of 1922.

The Campaign only raised $10,800 and enrolled only a few new members, but the list of prominent Negro women who participated in the campaign cannot be ignored in history.

Presented by Syl Woolford, recognized by the Delaware National Education Association and the NAACP for his contribution to the preservation of African American history. Mr. Woolford is a member of the Delaware Heritage Commission, the Historical and Cultural Affairs Collections Committee, the Historic Preservation Fund, and the Wilmington University History Committee.